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Post by Kristal Rose on Oct 15, 2007 19:48:17 GMT -5
Personally, no, but yes, that was the structure I had in mind. Why is that a problem?
Since they'd each be the leader for their own projects, they would each be responsible for creating collaboration and resource threads which suited their own projects, team, and workstyle. They might for instance have a status/inquiry thread for each member on their team within their sub-board. Ideally each project leader would each control visibility and access for their own sub-boards. For instance, in my sub-board the rule would be 'no new threads', since I can anticipate the categorical range of material that would belong there, and would want to restrict content to that which could be found categorically without having to browse multiple threads for something. Others here might do it differently, creating a new thread for each new resource, reference, prototype, or subject of design discussion.
or do you mean for EVERY member. No, just for those who want and would use a WIP sub-board. No sense in generating useless forum clutter. The idea here is increased forum capability WITHOUT increasing clutter. As an example, half the content I've been putting in the "How was your day?" thread, would instead go into editing my WIP technical/art threads, and my usage of "How was your day?" would go back to generic qualititative life incidentals, rather than including WIP details that no one could ever find again from a working resource standpoint.
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Post by Nixie on Oct 15, 2007 20:56:58 GMT -5
Come to think of it, maybe we need a "How was your day" forum with one thread per week. *shrug* Can't you deal with the current work in progress forum? You have to register to access it anyway.
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Post by Kristal Rose on Oct 16, 2007 0:23:02 GMT -5
Yeah, ok, I'll just preface my threads with my name and subjects to keep them structured, and not mention what my actual product is. People here presumably know that anyhow. Do your forum pages show up in search engines?
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Post by Nixie on Oct 16, 2007 0:44:18 GMT -5
They might eventually, but you'd still have to log in to access a thread you found on google.
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Post by Tenjen on Oct 16, 2007 3:49:02 GMT -5
when i search tenjen kouken i get this place. which is how i find it when i dont have a link at a place and kiwichanstudios.com isnt going to the right place.
At college it the url keeps sending me to some sort of spam site.
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Post by Kristal Rose on Oct 16, 2007 4:40:20 GMT -5
http-www and just plain http seem to be administered as separate entities by DNSs (Domain Name Servers) which do the dotted.quad address look up for a site name.
I'm lucky that my Domain Registrar covered both for me. That wasn't always the case, nor is it with other sites (including my college even), so those sleazy spam sites take advantage to redirect you if you get it wrong.
The lesson, try both prefaces if the first or none isn't working.
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Post by Tenjen on Oct 16, 2007 10:49:54 GMT -5
You will be able to find hidden places through google. But if its restricted too. Then you need to be registered for it, to enter.
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Post by Kristal Rose on Oct 16, 2007 14:46:19 GMT -5
There was a time when they weren't set up for indexing php pages, but I'm sure that's long over.
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Post by Nixie on Oct 16, 2007 16:18:51 GMT -5
Long, LONG over. Nowadays when you look something up on google you can expect to find people chatting about it on forums.
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Post by Kristal Rose on Oct 17, 2007 20:07:01 GMT -5
Hopefully Google will soon include a source options checkbox which discriminates between forums and sites, and passing mention vs dedicated content.
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